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Ground Control: Shelley Cardoos and Tracy Barbosa talk art and entrepreneurship

Ground Control- Shelley Cardoos and Tracy Barbosa

In the Pushy Women edition of Ground Control, Sarah Athanas focuses on the female experience by interviewing women doing great things in our community and beyond. In this episode she speaks with Shelley Cardoos, executive director of Entrepreneurship for All and owner of Hippo, a new gift shop in downtown New Bedford, and Tracy Barbosa, architectural glass artist and co-founder of Duende Glass.

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Recommended Listening: Sarah’s top Podcasts

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Steven, Dena, and myself are hard at work recording and editing a batch of episodes for the premiere of Ground Control, Groundwork’s very own podcast. We all get inspiration, motivation, and ideas from listening to an array of podcasts on our own, and Steven had a brilliant idea to highlight our favorites here. So without further ado, here’s what I’m listening to:

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Why Social Interaction Will Save Us: Coworking and Social Force

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Let’s be honest, today’s presidential inauguration was one of the biggest moments of social awkwardness in recent history. Some of us are dragging around like it’s the dawn of the apocalypse while others are celebrating a new era of radical change. Trying to navigate between these seemingly alien viewpoints generates inhibition, uncertainty, and mistrust. I watched many folks at Groundwork! tune into the inauguration live stream, earbuds in place, lost in thought. What happens next?

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Announcing Groundwork’s very own podcast! (and a sneak preview)

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We’re super excited to announce that 2017 will bring a new addition to the Groundwork! media empire: the Ground Control podcast. Dena and I are teaming up with everyone’s favorite blogger, Steven Froias, to bring you supreme audio content about all the things that make our community awesome: New Bedford pride, entrepreneurship, creativity, and kick-ass women. Check out the pilot episode here, in which Steven interviews Dena and I on one year of running a coworking space: lessons learned and ideas for the future.

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